William Madden Plante was an American journalist and correspondent for CBS News.
16 Facts About Bill Plante
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Bill Plante was noted for being the network's senior White House correspondent for over three decades.
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Bill Plante was posthumously awarded the Dunnigan-Payne Prize for lifetime career achievement on Saturday, April 29,2023, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Bill Plante attended Loyola Academy in his hometown, graduating in 1955.
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Bill Plante studied business and humanities at Loyola University Chicago, earning a bachelor's degree in 1959.
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Bill Plante dropped out of Chicago-Kent College of Law after a friend got him a job as assistant news director at WISN-TV.
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Bill Plante was at the station for four years before being awarded a journalism fellowship by CBS to study political science at Columbia University.
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Bill Plante was sent to South Vietnam later that year to report on the Vietnam War, the first of four tours as a correspondent.
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In March 1965, Bill Plante went to Selma, Alabama and was there when state troopers assaulted marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in what was later dubbed "Bloody Sunday".
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Bill Plante was promoted to correspondent the following year and was posted to the network's Chicago bureau.
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Bill Plante was there for ten years and reported on the 1966 riots in the city, protests at Ohio University, the strike by the United Auto Workers in 1970, and Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance five years later.
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Bill Plante was appointed Senior White House Correspondent for CBS ten years later and held that role for 35 years until his retirement in November 2016.
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Bill Plante anchored CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995 and reported for CBS This Morning and the CBS Evening News.
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Bill Plante spoke about the subject from time to time on The Early Show and CBS News Sunday Morning.
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Together, they had two children, as well as four sons from her previous marriage whom Bill Plante adopted, including future syndicated radio talk show host Chris Bill Plante.
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Bill Plante died on September 28,2022, at his home in Washington, DC, after suffering from respiratory failure.